From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: turning on minor modes from hooks
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Mhxdv-0006Bi-Ap@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eiqui4yx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:18:46 +0900)
Stephen has long advocated that non-interactive invocation of mode
commands should always turn on the mode instead of toggling.
A call with no arguments, as in (auto-save-mode), naturally ought to
toggle the mode or turn it on. But (auto-save-mode nil) has the
natural meaning of turning the mode off.
Perhaps we could make minor mode functions take &rest arguments so
they can distinguish those two cases. However, that could be a
painful change,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-31 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-29 21:25 turning on minor modes from hooks Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-29 23:18 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-30 0:14 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-30 2:11 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-30 3:01 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-30 3:58 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-30 3:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-30 4:00 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-31 3:33 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2009-08-31 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-31 22:15 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-31 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 0:17 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-01 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-01 16:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-01 23:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-03 13:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-04 21:23 ` Geoff Gole
2009-08-31 15:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2009-08-31 18:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-01 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 23:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 2:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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